- Hello and welcome, my friends, to a special episode of Mystery Tech with the one and only CarterPCs. My friend, you are an expert in many things, mostly retro tech, are you not? - Absolutely not. I think I'll know probably zero devices. - Zero devices? - [Alex] Be careful with that. - You want to go ahead and do the honors on this one? - I'll go for it, I'll go for it. - An Apple- - QuickTake 100? - Whoa, this is the very first Apple digital camera. In the nineties, Apple were like in the wilderness.

They made all kind of just crazy (duck quacks) that like no one bought. And one of the things is, I think they licensed this from Kodak, right? - [Ken] No, from Fuji. - From Fuji, from Fuji. Was it '94, '95? Something like that? - [Alex] '94. - Yeah. Wait, yeah, right? - What end do you look in? I have no idea. - So, you pull. Oh, oh, yeah, there we go. So, basically, you open it up- - What in the world?

It still probably looks better on social media than any Android phone. I feel like- - I don't know that's true. - You can actually see, it's like, it's like more of a range finder. - [Matt] There wasn't a screen in that. - [Carter] Everything looks so old. - Looks at Matt over there. - [Matt] Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. - [Ken] Actually pans over to Matt. - How much was this? - [Ken] Oh, that's a good question. - [Alex] Back when it first released, that was $749. That is around $1,600 today.

- That's crazy. - For context, a film camera at the time, you could get for a couple hundred bucks pretty easily. So, this is like, this is way more expensive. Oh, oh, I hear it. - Oh, that's live. - It says we have three photos, do you see that? - It counts. - Wait- - Wait, wait, that means that there's some on there. - Someone's photos in there. - Wait, how do you get photos off of this? There's no USB. - [Alex] You literally have to connect it to a Macintosh of the same era and offload it.

- The Apple ecosystem lock in, dude. Yeah, dude. - [Matt] There you go. - So now, the problem is gonna be how do we get these off? Do y'all have a plan for how to get the photos off? - [Ken] That'll be a later problem for us. - I can't help but notice, I mean when you asked how much it was, he just gave you the inflation adjusted price. How much did we pay? - [Alex] You know what? It's probably less than you might expect. - Okay. - [Alex] We bought it for $110.

- [Ken] Wait, actually? Wait, that's pretty good. - That's actually, that's- - That's very solid. - [Matt] No, no, don't. Oh my god. - I'll pick it off. - Wow. - [Carter] Oh, I see a rainbow Apple logo. - Oh! - Here we go. - [Alex] Continuing all the Apple train- - Wait, wait, wait, what the, what the hell? Is this a Newton eMate? - [Alex] That is correct. A Newton eMate 300. - What? That's a crazy pull, that's a crazy pull. - This was mid nineties or so.

They had laptops, but this is almost closer to like an old school iPad. You know the Apple Newton at all? - I do not. - I've never seen one of these in person, but they made the eMate as a more laptop friendly, basically, think about this like an old school iPad with a keyboard attached. This battery doesn't hold a charge, right? - [Alex] Let's find out. It came out in 1997. - Ooh. - [Matt] What? - Oh, yeah, yeah, it was like the other day. Yeah. - Your Newton device needs to be calibrated the way you naturally hold a pen.

You know what? You get to calibrate away. Can anyone see that at all on camera? Does that help at all? - [Ken] Oh, yeah. - It's kind of like an Etch A Sketch, it looks like an Etch A Sketch. Does it not? - [Alex] Poke it with the x, yeah. - [Carter] There we go. Oh! Oh, so it's like- - For the comparison point. - Oh, so, it's like those old smartboards where like the dots would pop up, like in school you would have to like click the thing- - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- It's actually kind of satisfying. It has that little delay between when you actually press it and when it pop up. - Yeah. It actually doesn't feel terrible. - [Carter] I kinda like it. - The Newton was actually kind of ahead of its time. The problem was is that it just wasn't quite fully baked enough. And like this thing looks goofy, right? Like no one bringing this into an office, meaning like, oh, yes sir, let me take some notes out. It looks too, sort of, much.

How much was the eMate 300 when it came out? - [Alex] 800 US dollars. - Which is what? 1500 bucks back in the day? - [Alex] No, it's like closer to 1700, give or take. - Oh, that's crazy. - [Alex] We paid, actually, 125. - [Ken] Wow! - What? - That's the deal. - Wait a minute, did y'all do a good job with Mystery Tech this time? This is treat. - [Alex] We tried real hard this time. - Wait, wait, wait, guys, there's a button that says light here. It's a backlit keyboard!

- Why is that the best feature of this? - 120 bucks? Man, I'm totally sold. This is legit. Let's see what that suspicious orange Temu package is. - Ignore the fact that it looks like (beep). - Look at that. - [Ken] Whoa! - I don't even try. - [Matt] Wait, I'm gonna get you in touch with Josh Allen. - A Nokia? - [Carter] Nokia? - Oh, buddy. Okay, so I mean, I see this and I think like a Nokia like 3310, or. Whoa, what? Wait. What?

- [Matt] Oh. - What the hell is this? Oh my god, is it the lipstick phone? - Lipstick phone? - Wait, is it? - [Alex] That is correct. - Oh my god. - That my friends is a Nokia 7280. - So this is from the era where Nokia were out of their (beep) minds. You have a camera, it opens and closes, and then it has a little tab, which I think the tab is to open up the. - Wow. - [Alex] You break it. - Oh, I heard it. It's beeping. Wait it's, I do hear it beeping a lot. Oh, oh it's on. - [Carter] Oh. - [Austin] Insert SIM card.

- [Carter] There we go. - [Alex] Yeah. So, you see that little round thing there? - [Austin] Yeah. - [Alex] That's essentially like an iPod click wheel. - [Matt] Yeah. - Oh. - [Alex] And that is the only way to interact with this thing. So, if you try to dial a number or text, you must use that wheel. - Oh. - [Alex] This phone came out in 2004. - [Austin] I can't- - [Carter] Okay. I mean, it looks pretty cool. I like the little red accent between- - [Austin] Yeah.

- Oh, that is satisfying. They need to start adding more secret compartments and things. - Yes. Okay. You got a SIM card in ya. Come on. Oh, oh, it's in. - [Carter] The screen doesn't look bad. - [Austin] Oh, oh, it's the buttons. Oh, wait, camera. Let's go camera. Here we go. Ready and. I mean, for the 75 pixels I can see it looks fine. - [Ken] Oh, it gives you a preview? - So, this is incredibly cool. I know, for basically a fact, that it was incredibly expensive.

- [Alex] Yes. For a phone at the time it was pretty expensive. It was 600 Euro, which is like 660 USD. We paid $200. - Again, kind of reasonable. - Yeah. - The problem is like, it's not a usable phone anymore. But, it looks cool as hell. Oh, I'm not even trying. You're just get it. - [Matt] I'm just saying- - Dropped that one. - We're so used to people dropping these. - [Austin] You throw them directly into my face.

- People? He is people. - Are these like old headphones? - Oh, they're headphones. - Oh, these are Koss? - [Alex] Yes. That is correct. These are the Pro/4AAAs. - How old are these headphones? - [Alex] The ones that you are holding right now are from 1976. - Wow. 50-year-old headphones? - I can say that's actually old, right? - Yeah. No, no, no- - It's not sensitive subject? Okay. - [Ken] Yes, legitimately.

- We listen to The Beatles. We can listen to- - Let's do it. - The Beach Boys were better than The Beatles when it comes to recording artists. - I don't know what The Beach Boys are, but. Was that before or after Christ? - I will say though, the ear cups are a little deflated. - Oh, it's like, they are hard. - Yeah, they're hard. Whoa. - Do you want to do the honors and playing some music my friend?

- Yeah, let's do it. Oh, yep, I'm getting something. - Okay, okay. - [Ken] Nice, nice. - They don't sound bad. They really don't sound bad. - Yeah? - I mean like, they're a little muffled, but like- - I mean, after 50 years we all get a little muffled, don't we? - Yeah. - These are so uncomfortable though. - [Adriana] You look like Amelia Earhart. - Thank you, I think. - "Hotel California" 2013 remaster.

- [Ken] That sounds about right. - [Matt] And then he'll do J. Cole. - That's actually not bad, dude. That's not bad. How much do we pay for these Koss Pro/4M headphones? - Well, how much were they originally? - [Alex] It launched at $70 back then. - [Austin] Oh my god. - [Alex] $70 back then. So, that is the equivalent of roughly $400 in today's money. Even in like really, really, really good quality, they go for just like a couple hundred bucks, we paid 55. - [Carter] Legit for paying for $55.

- Yeah, yeah. Like I think if you just swap out those ear cups- - Honestly, yeah. - These are a hundred percent usable. - Is that the new meta? Just buy these for $55 off of eBay, swap out the ear cups, and like- - Honestly, may be. - They're built better than any $55 headphones you could buy. - Absolutely. Oh, he's, he's not here. Give, give, give, give, give, give. You got to be, you really do like Carter more than me. - [Matt] We respond well to height. - [Adriana] Austin, you're kind of. - What is what? Everyone looks short when you get the camera off.

What are we even looking at here? - You wanna get this one? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Think we have two- - Oh my god, is this a Virtual Boy? That's a Virtual Boy stand? Is this a Virtual Boy? That's a control. It's a Virtual Boy. - [Alex] He is so excited. - Do you know the Virtual Boy? - No. And I'm surprised that you could identify it by the stand. - I, Nintendo made a, basically a VR headset in the nineties. - No way. - And it is ass. It's so bad. - [Carter] Okay. - So, the way this works- - [Carter] Oh my gosh, you put that on your face.

- Well, no, you put your face in this. - I see. Of course. - So, the way it works is there is a little LED, it's a red LED that goes back and forth. There's an excellent Slow Mo Guys video where Gav actually, like, shows how this works with slow motion. It is legitimately wild. And Nintendo just released for the Switch, basically, it's a modern version of this, you put your Switch in and you can play virt. - [Ken] You mean this one? - Right here. Yes. This. - No way. - So, for Switch Online, if you put your Switch in there, you can play these games on a Switch or a Switch 2, but it's better on the original because it'll give you a headache.

It was like 200 bucks when it launched. - [Alex] It was almost a hundred. It was like 180. In today's money, that would be like 380. - Imagine paying $380 for a console. Oh wait, we do. - [Alex] Oh, yeah. - Okay, do you want to give this thing a try? Do you wanna experience the Virtual Boy? - I sure do. Yeah, I wanna play "Mario's Tennis" Virtual Boy. It's actually one of the better games for it. - [Matt] It's one of the only games for it.

- Oh my gosh. Wait. The text actually looks really good. Oh, so there's doubles. - [Ken] This music is kind of fire. - [Carter] It's super impressive. Like the motion feels good. Like if it wasn't all red- - Yeah. Alex, I know that Virtual Boys are expensive. - Oh, yes. - [Alex] Yeah. - I'm gonna guess a working Virtual Boy is probably like 4-500 bucks. - [Alex] Ooh, okay. This is, this bodes well for us then.

- [Austin] Okay. - [Alex] We spent 350. - [Austin] I mean- - [Alex] That's not cheap. - All right. - It's not cheap, but- - [Alex] But it comes in less than your 400. - It's a weirdo though. It's so weird. - It is weird. It is very weird. But, surprisingly, pretty playable. - I hate to say positive things in general. - [Alex] What? - But, y'all are doing a really good job. These are actually, like legitimately some of the most interesting Mystery Tech items- - [Matt] I'm glad you bring that because I cooked with this one.

- [Alex] Yeah. So, Carter, you know what, you know what- - [Matt] You know what this is? - [Alex] Yeah. Right? - These, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what CDs are. - [Alex] You sure? - We got you these? - [Austin] Oh my god! - [Ken] What do you think those are? - [Matt] Records? - [Carter] Records. - No. - [Alex] Well, why don't you, why don't you take one out of the sleeve? - They're tricking you right now. - Why is it, why is it so big?

I think it's a big CD, bro. That's clearly- - You are not wrong. - So, it is a Laser Disc. So, before DVDs existed, you could put an entire movie- - [Matt] Nope. - Most of a movie- - [Matt] Nope. - On one of these things. - You could put movies, you could put some of a movie. - [Austin] Part of a movie on a Laser Disc. - Yeah. - Laser Disc, on top of being absurdly large and annoying, was unbelievably expensive. Like the players were like over a thousand dollars.

Like a movie was like 80 bucks. If you take a closer look, you'll see there's variety of high quality movies here. - "Die Hard 2." - [Ken] Yep. - Have you ever seen any of these movies? - [Ken] "Die Harder?" - So, yeah, my only experience with like discs- - Yeah. - Is like taking them out of the little case and then cutting them up into like little ninja stars and like throwing them. I've never actually like put one in to like watch what's on it. - You've never used a disc? But like what, like a PlayStation game or something?

You never like put a PlayStation game in a PlayStation or something? - No. (poignant music) - [Carter] Here let's go for. - [Austin] I'll say "Die Hard" is pretty safe one. - [Carter] Yeah. Let's do "Die Hard." - Well, let's fire it up, make sure it's all working, right? So, I'll let you do the entire thing. - This might take a couple minutes here. So, I hit the open/close button. That's not doing it. - [Matt] You pushed on it. - I pushed on it, maybe like it's like a drawer where you have to.

- Look for the power button first. - Oh. Wait, it's not on? - No, it's not. - Oh, I see it, I see it. - None of the lights are on yet. - Okay. Power. Oh, there we go. - There you go. - Okay, here we go. And then open/close? - Yeah. That feels good. - I think so. - Oh, up, up. - Here we go. - Yes. - Oh, yeah. Watching this intro on this TV feels like the real authentic experience. I feel like- - Well, here's the thing, this TV is a solid 15 years newer than this player.

(all laughing) - So, this was a luxury compared to VHS. 'Cause VHS was just one linear tape. - [Austin] You just have to fast forward it. - Yeah. You have to fast forward it, and hope to god that you stopped at the right time. - Yeah, I mean it's just the grain, but like, I feel like for these prehistoric movies, it's like- - [Unison] Prehistoric? - It's, well. - [Alex] Oh my God. - I think my hands just turned to dust. - [Carter] Wait. - I'm afraid to ask. Actually, no, you know what?

Matt, is this, Laser Disc from This Is? - [Matt] Yeah. - Okay, I know this one. This was a lot of money. - [Matt] For a Laser Disc player- - It was like $700. - It was, but it came with. - Okay! - [Matt] Look how many movies it came with. - [Ken] Oh, it came with the movies? - [Matt] Yeah. - [Ken] Oh, that's fine, that's fine. No, actually- - No. It's still bad. - It was $600. But this was like, I wanna say that this one was $1,500 when it was retail.

- Which, at the time, was like three or four grand. This has been an experience, but I have- - Sure has. - One more thing. As someone who drives a self-driving vehicle. - Exclusively. Yeah. - Exclusively. - Right. - What is your experience with slightly more retro vehicles? - Zero. - Behold my friends. Something that's a little bit more old school. - Wait, it's a Porsche? - Yes, sir. - [Carter] Dude, that's sick. - So, have you ever been in an old school car?

- No. Not like this. Not like intentionally like cool old. Oh my god. - This is a Porsche. - Dude, it's in such good condition. - Thank you. I'll show you what makes this a little different, which is the engine, which is in the back. - No way. - So, it is an air cooled 911, which is old and temperamental. - Okay. - This just got back from the shop where it was there for six months. - Oh my god. And what was the problem? - Let me show you.

- Okay. Oh. Dude, it's so low. Oh, (duck quacks). That's awesome. It's so trippy hearing it from behind you. - It's not started yet. So, I say temperamental, that's what I mean. - It's not started. - You can smell it. - Yes. Yes, you can. Smells like a train going by. - That is not wildly off. But, I have tech. - Dude, it doesn't even look like you put in like a new thing. - It has the world's smallest CarPlay. - Wait, that's CarPlay?

- There's USB port right here. This will actually do CarPlay. It's actually made by Porsche. It's designed specifically to go into older Porsches. You have Bluetooth. You can listen to some radio if you want. - [Carter] Wow. ♪ Don't, don't, don't, don't ♪ - Wanna go for a spin? - Absolutely. So sweet. - It is an experience. You also have roll up windows. - I was about to say, I've never, I've never cranked a window before.

- Crank that window, my friend. - Oh, it's smooth. - So what I like about it is that you really have to focus on driving. Like, there's no, you're not playing with your phone, like, I didn't even have a radio on this thing for two, like, almost two years. - Oh. Nah, it's got some get up. That's nuts. Oh my god. - So, that my friend is Mystery Tech. What do you think? - Insane. Incredible. Dude, I need to learn how to drive.

- So, my friend, thank you for coming out to Mystery Tech. Hopefully you feel like you're a little bit older and a little bit more retro. - I sure do. That was sweet. That was so awesome. - Maybe before we call it a day, obviously, go check out CarterPCs. Let's go for like one more spin? - Let's do it. - Let's just one more, one more. We'll see you later next time.